COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shortened its physical distancing guidelines for children in schools to recommend most students maintain at least 3 feet of distance. The CDC had previously said schools should try to maintain at least 6 feet of distance between children. This change comes after a new study
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team held its annual spring game on Saturday afternoon. You can watch the highlights and hear from the team in the video player above. You can also watch our full interviews with head coach Eli Drinkwitz, quarterback Connor Bazelak and many more in the video players below. https://youtu.be/4lsathqHobQ https://youtu.be/_m0sebXSLQ4
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That morning, Capt. Ripusudan Prasad phoned his wife, Anita, as he did every day from the oil tanker he commanded, the MT Duke. The ship was about eight hours from port in Lomé, Togo, from where Prasad planned to fly home to Kolkata, India. But, at 7:45 a.m., he got a call that would dramatically
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo (KMIZ) The Boonville girls basketball team won the state championship for the first time in school history on Saturday afternoon. The Lady Pirates took down Mount Vernon 58-52 to claim the Class 4 title, while finishing the season at 27-2. Addison Brownfield finished the afternoon with the team-high 19 points. Her teammate, Kourtney
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) Columbia Police say shots were fired into a home on the east side of Columbia Saturday evening. The Columbia Police Department taped off an area near the 5300 block of Godas Circle around 5:45. Officers tell us there were shell casings on the ground near the home. Officers say no one has
Continue Reading Sixteen children considered critically missing were rescued during a four-week operation that concluded this week, according to the US Marshals Service office in Philadelphia. At least four of the recovered children were connected to child sex trafficking, the marshals service said on Thursday. Dubbed Operation Safeguard, the initiative began on February 15 when a US
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Timothy Phan drove eight hours from Florida to attend a Saturday rally in Atlanta, aimed at grieving those killed at three Georgia spas and opposing hate against Asian Americans. Phan didn’t know the eight people slain, six of whom were women of Asian descent. But with reports of attacks against Asian Americans against the rise,
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As the world ground to a halt last March, many travelers expected to be globetrotting again in a few months time. Here we are just over a year later. But with the rapid development of effective vaccines and increased distribution of those life-saving doses in some countries, glimmers of hope are starting to emerge. The
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Newly-confirmed Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge may have violated the Hatch Act, the law that limits the political activities of all federal civilian executive branch employees, with comments she made during a White House press briefing Thursday. Fudge joined White House press secretary Jen Psaki at Thursday’s briefing, where she was asked
Continue Reading After his team’s loss to Oral Roberts in the NCAA Basketball Tournament on Friday, Ohio State forward E.J. Liddell says he was the victim of threatening messages on social media. The 20-year-old, who finished with a team-high 23 points, missed a free throw in the final seconds of No. 2 seed Ohio State’s 72-75, opening
Continue Reading Los Angeles has officially become a no-kill shelter city, making it the largest city in the country to do so, according to Best Friends Animal Society, the organization that gives the ratings. LA’s save rate is now up to 90.4%, which is over the 90% rate needed to claim no-kill status, according to Best Friends.
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Tonight: Mostly Clear skies lead to temperatures cooling and bottoming out at 40. Tomorrow: Mostly sunny skies help warm up our temperatures topping out in the mid-60s. As we get later into the afternoon, clouds slowly start to push in from the west leaving us partly cloudy overnight. Extended: Monday our next low pressure system
Continue Reading The Clevelander South Beach, one of Miami Beach’s most iconic hotels, announced Friday that it will temporarily halt its food and beverage operations out of concern for the spread of coronavirus as crowds throng the city. “Recently, we have grown increasingly concerned with the safety of our dedicated employees and valued customers and the ability
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On Friday, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris traveled to Atlanta to confront the racial hatred that is forcing millions of people of Asian descent to live in daily fear. The trip comes on the heels of Tuesday’s carnage — in which a White man in Atlanta killed eight people, including six Asian
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Click here for updates on this story GWINNETT, Georgia (Gwinnett Daily Post) — Grayson resident Lillie Champion marveled at some of the changes she saw a group of Georgia Gwinnett College students and Habitat for Humanity volunteers had done on her back porch and in her back yard this past Saturday morning. Rotted decks on
Continue Reading Click here for updates on this story SALUDA, North Carolina (WLOS) — One mountain business is holding a special event to raise money for the family of a girl who continues to battle cancer. On Saturday, March 20, Saluda Outfitters and Green River Eddy’s Tap Room & Grill is hosting a fundraiser with live music
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In the state, 21.7 percent of the population, or 1,329,104 people, have started the vaccination process. 718,615 people have been fully vaccinated.
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There are more than 5,000 unaccompanied children in Customs and Border Protection custody, according to documents obtained by CNN, up from 4,500 days earlier. Of those, there are more than 600 children who have been in custody for over 10 days. The growing number of unaccompanied children at the border is adding greater stress to
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Four leaders among the Proud Boys have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington, DC, for conspiracy and other charges related to the siege of the US Capitol, as prosecutors reveal more of what they’ve learned about the pro-Trump extremist group’s encrypted communications and their attempts to avoid detection. The indictment adds two
Continue Reading A 21-year-old woman was killed and seven people wounded early Saturday in a shooting at a Dallas nightclub, police said. The victim, identified as Daisy Navarrete, died from her injuries after a “disturbance between two groups” ended with someone shooting into a crowd at the Pryme Bar, Dallas police said via Twitter. Seven other people
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